Bill Gates Wants a Plan for AI?

We discuss Bill Gates' recent essay with dire warnings of " one of the most turbulent times in human history," calling for a massive planning effort. However, while he makes some good points, we find him to be comically silent about who actually got us into this mess!

We encourage plans that directly center human flourishing, rather than an "AI plan" which centers the AI companies.

Concepts

• AI Safety
• Doomtrolling
• Regulatory capture
• Global policy
• Accountability
• Activism

References

• Bill Gates essay - "The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Creating Change through Social Entrepreneurship course by Teresa Chahine
• Techtivism by Chelsea Troy
• ⁠Ironies of automation⁠ by Lisanne Bainbridge (1983 paper, revisited in 2021)
• ACM Code of Ethics
• OpenAI charter
• Bill Gates interview with The Atlantic ("this time it's different")
• Mark Zuckerberg essay "The Future is for everyone", intentionally not linked :)
• Trek Virgin podcast (our other show)
• The "Do all the good you can" quote is attributed to John Wesley but source unknown.
• Lao Tzu is a pen name for early Taoist sayings with likely many unknown authors.

Hosted by Ray Myers and Liz Martinez. Find us online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thecodingagency.org⁠⁠⁠⁠.